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Reality check: Are you a workaholic?

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By Ann Belser, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Monday, November 7, 2011

We all know them: the people who are at work all the time.

They come in early and make up for it by leaving late.

Some love what they do; others are avoiding chores or strife at home; still others feel like more and more just needs to be done at the office.

The luckiest workers, by far, are those who followed the advice of Confucius: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

But, can loving what you do have a downside?

Paul Goodman, an organizational psychologist and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said it's great to love your work, but it can be a problem if you neglect the other parts of your life.

"There's a lot of conflicts between demands of your job and demands from ...


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